Myriophyllum sibiricum
Kom. · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Myriophyllum sibiricum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility13 929 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI38 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics44 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
giftgenome & karyotype
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Myriophyllum sibiricum is a species of water milfoil known by the common names shortspike watermilfoil, northern watermilfoil, and Siberian water-milfoil. It is native to Russia, China, and much of North America, where it grows in aquatic habitat such as ponds and streams. It generally grows over a meter long, its green stem drying white. It is lined with whorls of fanlike green leaves divided into many narrow, feathery lobes.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology3
Life cycle & reproduction2
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment6
Physiology & chemistry2
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Myriophyllum sibiricum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Myriophyllum sibiricum carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 426×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn66 · CCDB · book-fedorov
2n 142×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
polyploid1×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type13 929 records
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions87 of 146 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, FI | 579 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 415 |
| Madison, US | 290 |
| Victoria, CA | 241 |
| St. Paul, US | 233 |
| Oulu, FI | 216 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 121 |
| Tartu, EE | 119 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 110 |
| Turku, FI | 107 |
| Pullman, US | 95 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 92 |
| Green Bay, US | 92 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 83 |
| WINlocation not on record | 82 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 81 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 81 |
| LDlocation not on record | 77 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 72 |
| Olocation not on record | 69 |
| Saint John, CA | 69 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 50 |
| Chicago, US | 49 |
| Québec, CA | 48 |
| 730location not on record | 46 |
| Flagstaff, US | 40 |
| Claremont, US | 40 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 37 |
| Bloomington, US | 37 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 37 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 33 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 32 |
| Corvallis, US | 32 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 31 |
| Trondheim, NO | 31 |
| Lincoln, US | 29 |
| Missoula, US | 29 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 27 |
| Logan, US | 24 |
| Vancouver, CA | 22 |
| Montréal, CA | 22 |
| Bozeman, US | 22 |
| Riverside, US | 21 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 20 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 18 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 18 |
| Philadelphia, US | 17 |
| Uppsala, SE | 17 |
| IDElocation not on record | 17 |
| Yukon Universitylocation not on record | 17 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 16 |
| Arcata, US | 16 |
| Toronto, CA | 16 |
| Anchorage, US | 15 |
| 15 | |
| Denver, US | 13 |
| Phoenix, US | 13 |
| Moscow, US | 13 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 13 |
| Lord Fairfax Community Collegelocation not on record | 12 |
| Caldwell, US | 11 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 11 |
| Portland, US | 11 |
| University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 11 |
| San Diego, US | 11 |
| Albuquerque, US | 9 |
| Davis, US | 9 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 9 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 8 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 7 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 7 |
| Bronx, US | 6 |
| Mount Pleasant, US | 6 |
| CASlocation not on record | 6 |
| US | 6 |
| Chadron, US | 6 |
| Dekalb, US | 6 |
| College Park, US | 6 |
| Whitewater, US | 6 |
| Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record | 5 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 5 |
| Henderson, US | 5 |
| Boise, US | 5 |
| Durango, US | 5 |
| Orem, US | 5 |
| Saint Louis, US | 5 |
| Churchill Northern Studies Centrelocation not on record | 5 |
| Stockholm, SE | 4 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 4 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 4 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 4 |
| Kandalaksha State Nature Reservelocation not on record | 4 |
| Burlington, US | 4 |
| Garðabær, IS | 4 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 4 |
| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| DULlocation not on record | 4 |
| Emporia, US | 3 |
| VALElocation not on record | 3 |
| Kuopio, FI | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| The Manitoba Museum, Botany Departmentlocation not on record | 3 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 3 |
| Durham, US | 3 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 2 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resourceslocation not on record | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 2 |
| Spearfish, US | 2 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Angelo, US | 2 |
| Cheney, US | 2 |
| Pocatello, US | 2 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 2 |
| Fargo, US | 2 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 2 |
| Provo, US | 2 |
| Fort Worth, US | 2 |
| Brookings, US | 2 |
| Montréal, CA | 2 |
| Komarov Botanical Institutelocation not on record | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 2 |
| Pittsburg, US | 2 |
| Porvoo, FI | 2 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 2 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 2 |
| Bergen, NO | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 1 |
| Lubbock, US | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Hudson, US | 1 |
| USFSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Nevadalocation not on record | 1 |
| PHlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Myriophyllum sibiricum was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Measured at samplingin-field
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.